Diptych
1967 (published 1970)
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two-plate color engraving on wove paper
Dimensions
plate (overall): 34.93 × 49.37 cm (13 3/4 × 19 7/16 in.) sheet: 48.58 × 65.09 cm (19 1/8 × 25 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of E. Gerald Lamboley)
Accession Number
2015.19.2971
Art Historical Context
Stanley William Hayter's *Diptych* (1967, published 197) is a masterful example of mid-20th-century printmaking innovation. This two-panel color engraving, executed on wove paper, measures 34.93 × 49.37 cm across its plates, inviting viewers into a dynamic interplay of form and color. Hayter, the British artist who founded the influential Atelier 17 workshop in Paris in 1927, revolutionized intaglio techniques, blending Surrealist experimentation with abstract expressionist energy. By the 1960s, his work reflected a lifetime of pushing printmaking boundaries, often exploring simultaneity and t...
About the Artist
Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), born in Hackney, London, to painter and sign-maker William Harry Hayter, initially pursued a scientific career, earning a degree in chemistry and geology from King's College London. He worked as a research chemist for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran, from 1922 to 1925, painting portraits of colleagues in his spare time; an exhibition of these upon ...